Active Directory is a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services.
Displaying custom security messages on the logon screen is a valuable feature for system administrators. It allows organizations to provide users with important legal notices, security policies, or other critical information they must acknowledge before accessing the system. This guide Read More …
If you are using Azure Exchange for email, you may want to create an email alias for a user in your on-premises Active Directory domain. This can be achieved by syncing the user account to Azure AD and using the Read More …
While creating a Test Environment to check a few issues I am experiencing on a Previous RODC I set up. The following error kept coming up: “You must supply a user account Name”. Upon doing a bit of research I Read More …
Logging onto an AD Server this week, we found a very worrying event in the Security Event Viewer when we saw Event ID 4776 Audit Failure every few seconds. The problem with this event is that if it does not Read More …
One of IT Daily’s challenges is when User passwords expire. The problem with this is Users don’t even know their passwords are expiring then during the day IT would get a call that the Printer is not working and it Read More …
When looking at GPO to uninstall software the answer is really simple. Group Policies can only uninstall software that was installed via Group Policies. Well even though this statement remains true we can still use Group Policies to run PowerShell Read More …
Standing next to me is a Person with multiple pieces of paper. Each of them having Telephone numbers of all the different companies they work with. Just looking at the pages you can see this has been coming along for Read More …
If you are a first-time IT Administrator and you hear about Group Policy Management Console and what it does, you are probably thinking magic has returned to the world. Where Active Directory is an Authentication and Authorization process Group Policy Read More …
Continuing off the previous post where we got the server Ready to Backup Bitlocker Recovery Keys. We now reached the point where we need to push down the Group Policies to the client devices. Just a Reminder this is a Read More …
In a previous post, I wrote about How to setup Bitlocker without TPM. Now let’s just suppose you work in an environment where you have multiple IT People managing Multiple Laptops. If even one person does not save the Recovery Read More …